When that kind of money is at play, it is easy to understand how wealth is generated even by conservative estimates.

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That was just based on the estimates made by both conservative and liberal economists, because at that point not all the data had trickled in.

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The EIA expects 8.5% of the coal-fired fleet to retire by 2016, and 17% by 2020, and those are very conservative estimates.

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If vehicles sales hit the upper estimate provided by Ford, our subscriber growth estimates could turn out to be conservative.

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Conservative estimates suggest just 2% of that energy could be tapped by EGS in practice, but even that would be far more than is needed to supply all of America's electricity.

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Berkley said industry risk models have all but abandoned the once common indicator known as "Absolute Maximum Loss, " preferring to base premiums on the more conservative "Probable Maximum Loss" calculation, which lowers damage estimates by factoring in long odds of catastrophic events.

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